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I llike your newsletter so much... so much good news and sanity... ... in my world am going for my tourist visa Wednesday... first time I visited Moscow 2017... was so lovely... walked with my Russian friend for hours and hours to see highlights and a bit of the ''woods'' near Moscow... this time ... now 82... will do some days ''alone'' too learning how to take metro, shopping, finding museums and bookshops... and a bank so can get a mir card... VERY Exciting... all in preparation for 2024 when I want to do 2 months in Siberia, God willing, look up some of the ancient archaeology sites AP Okladnikov mentions... I also started a youtube channel.. Grandma Bente's New Adventures... learning the ropes how to make videos, record and edit... all new to me and very exciting... intention to share my new adventures with people... and inspire them to make their own life an adventure... and hopefully make the channel contribute to travelling etc etc... hope to be able to travel up to 6 month a year... wherefore I gopple up all the data on life in Russia... cost of etc etc... :-) :-) thanks for all your good work... ml bente

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Immigration would be more promising if Russia changed their attitude towards citizens owning firearms. Especially pistols.

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